歌词翻译 (English)
When I Die
When I die, bury me, 'tween Yangtze and Yellow River,
Let my skull pillow; White hair beneath swart soil's cover.
In China, the most gorgeous and motherly land,
I'll fall asleep in peace, upon the whole Mainland.
Hearken about, the requiem from the Two Great Rivers,
Two pipes of sempiternal music, torrential, eastwards.
This is the bed most inclusive, and widest as well,
To satisfy a heart, so that could think or sleep well.
Once, there was such a Chinese youngster,
In frozen Michigan, gazing afar westward.
To see through the night for Chinese daywake,
With the eyes that'd been for seventeen longing.
He gluttonized the map, from Taihu to West Lake,
As returning - And to francolins' Chongqing.